Admin notes
Sorry it took a while to get set up. Things kept getting in the way of my plans, but I finally set up a starting point for these boards!
IL Boards will be the main boards for this game since the game is mostly about individual runs in its current state rather than any overarching goal. I'm open to category suggestions in the forums, especially for Full Game categories, so feel free to make a new thread for each major category you want to run! If you do, please provide a description, some rules examples, and especially a video of yourself running your category to better explain how it differs from an IL or other Full Game categories.
The version variable will likely be far more volatile at this stage since the game is still in Early Access. I'm aiming to keep versions relatively grouped depending on if a new version slows the game significantly such that previous records from former versions cannot be beat. This should keep the subcategory from getting too excessive as the dev cycle maintains its "update every other week" pace.
Update Log
Boards/Categories
- Made IL Boards primary
- Added "Levels" - these are the Difficulties, from Settler to Viceroy to Prestige 20
- Added IL Categories "Any%" - Complete a run/village as fast as possible. Use any map modifiers you wish, any Embark Bonuses. "No Modifiers" - Complete a run/village in an area that is NOT near any map Modifiers. You may still use Embark Bonuses.
Variables & Subcategories
- Added Version subcategory
- Added Biome variable
- Added Viceroy Level variable (I might condense this to discrete ranges of values rather than leaving this as a user-provided value; please keep this to whole numbers for now)
- Added each Species as a unique variable (in case people want to filter for a run with a specific species involved)
Other
- Disabled comments on runs. I'm just one person currently, and I don't know how big this game might get on here given that it's a (pausable) Real-Time Strategy, Roguelike, City-Builder, which are all frequently somewhat niche genres when they're single-player only, let alone when combined into a single game. --- On this note: if the team expands enough and we get enough submissions to warrant it, I may open this up in the future to "Only users with verified Against the Storm runs".
- Updated the color scheme for the board
- Added a background image & game cover borrowed from the Steam page.
Heya speedy Viceroys!
I've started a couple of threads in the forum (though you're all welcome to make some threads there, too, if you have ideas on how to improve the boards!) regarding the most recent update and some new category ideas I've had suggested to me and some I came up with myself.
